Civic Tech Field Guide

Image Verification Assistant

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

We are a joint team of engineers and investigators from CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle, trying to build a comprehensive tool for media verification on the Web.

Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies Are Weaponized Against Women Online

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004-3027

Report striving to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation.

Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

The Manilla Principles on Intermediary Liability define various principles for intermediary companies to follow when operating in democratic and authoritarian environments

Linterna Verde

Bogotá

Linterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.

Liga Contra el Silencio

Colombia

We define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.

Lead Stories

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

Making Sense of the News course

Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.

Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training

IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.

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Mafindo

Indonesia

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

Social Media Hoax Slayer

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

Hamilton 2.0

The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.

Republic of Georgia's “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections”

Georgia (Sakartvelo)

The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.

GhanaFact

Ghana

Ghana’s first full-time fact-checking organisation signatory to the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles.

Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.

Global Network Initative

1325 G Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005

GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.

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ITS Rio Curricula on Information Issues

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Course at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio

Information Resistance

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

Information Resistance is a non-governmental project whose main task is to counteract in the information field external threats arising for Ukraine in the main areas: military, economic and energy, as well as in information security.

InformNapalm

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative emerged as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine in March 2014.

Journalism Trust Initiative

The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.

International Partnership on Information and Democracy

The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space

Iffy Quotient

University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

The Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.

Media LIT

EDx course on media literacy. It helps us understand, analyze and create media.

Trusted News

114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PT

It’s hard to tell what’s real news and what’s fake these days, especially on the internet. TrustedNews helps you understand the news you are reading.

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Media Matters for Pakistan

Pakistan

Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.

Marvelous.ai

MarvelousAI is an (inactive) early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans.

Data & Society Media Manipulation Initiative

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA

The Media Manipulation Initative takes a sociotechnical approach to understanding the social, political, and economic incentives to game information systems, websites, platforms, and search engines—especially in cases where the attackers intend to destabilize democratic, social, and economic institutions.

Hablatam

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Research project into how young people use tech and media

Trusted Times

Trusted Times uses a browser extension to identify fake and unreliable news and presents additional analysis through machine learning of any news article to show a reporter’s and news source’s bias, if any. Trusted Times screens thousands of news websites in the United States.

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KnowNews

Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.

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Latam Chequea

Latin America

Faced with the “infodemic”, the spread of rumors and false content, Latin American checkers join forces to share the information we produce and, by joining forces, provide better information to our communities.

Sentinel Project early warning system for Kenya Election 2022

Kenya

Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.

Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS)

Malaysia

Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.

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Civic Software Foundation

Washington, DC

Building the next generation of collaborative systems, owned entirely in the public interest

New York Times AR Storytelling Gallery

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Showcasing the NYT's 27 Published Experiments in AR Storytelling

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The CivTech Alliance

We are a global network of like-minded innovation programmes across GovTech, Civic Tech and Academia. With teams across 17 countries, we help our members deliver better outcomes for their citizens and innovation ecosystems.

Climate action

SALTO Resource pool

Europe

A collection of 700+ resources targeted at EU youth

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Join Together

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Digital tools for trade unions

Engagement tech

Demokratiefabrik

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.

Draw Congress

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

By the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.

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Widely Viewed Content Dashboard

In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.

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Assis

Brazil (Brasil)

Você sabia que muitos problemas da gestão pública podem ser solucionados com Inteligência Artificial ?

Digital Green

San Francisco

Digital Green is a global development organization that empowers smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the collective power of technology and grassroots-level partnerships.